It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.